Kid Changes His Grades By Hacking, He Lives To Regret It

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Remember kids, it's better to use your skills for good than for evil. Evil may pay better for a while, but something usually comes along to make it not worth it in the long run.

Homework could get a lot more secure

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Banning backpacks really doesn't seem like an effective countermeasure to prevent gun violence. If you try to ban everything that a student might hide a gun inside then pretty soon kids will have to come to school naked.

Don't worry, kids, there's still hope

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Kids, if you had the realization that remote classrooms would spell the end of snowdays, have no fear. There's still a way to for online classes to get canceled and snow plows can't open them back up.

Like an ankle monitor in your pocket

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I can't get over how carceral the policies about this college's mandatory tracking app are. It really does seem like the students are being voluntold to submit to house arrest at the college, and the app is a technical control that helps enforce that.

I understand there are concerns about COVID-19 and re-opening the school, but there are more privacy-friendly ways, and heck maybe it would be better if the school didn't re-open and went online instead.

I am curious what the school administration would do if a student said they didn't have a phone. Would they buy the student a phone? Probably not. They want the features of an ankle monitoring without having to pay for the hardware or infrastructure so they offload that cost onto the students. It's like the gig economy (exploitative as that is) but for hardware.

Shhhhh....

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If you're going to arm school staff (questionable as that may seem), surely the school library needs protection too.

Guess they won't be playing cops and robbers in Kansas

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It's hard to take authorities seriously when they arrest little girls for a hand gesture we've all made (probably on multiple occasions).

Will schools learn their lesson?

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Of all the organizations that could benefit from learning this lesson, a center for learning is one we might even expect to be capable of learning this lesson. Learning is kind of their reason for being, after all.

So hopefully, now that a bunch of schools have been hit by ransomware and it's become clear that they're desirable targets, maybe other schools will do the necessary thing and take care of their systems before someone takes them out.